Description

The SEMDIAL series of workshops aim to bring together researchers
working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such
as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal
semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science.
In 2007 we will celebrate ten years of the SEMDIAL series with the
DECALOG workshop, organized at the
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences,
CIMeC (Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello), of the University
of Trento in Rovereto.
The SemDial workshops are always
stimulating and fun, and Rovereto is a great place to visit.

DECALOG will be held on May 30 – June 1, 2007, in
conjunction with the
Inaugural Workshop
of the Language, Interaction
and Computation Lab of CIMeC on May 29. This one-day workshop
will feature invited presentations by some of the leaders of the
computational linguistics and human language technology community.

Submission

Deadline for receipt of papers is 18 February 2007,
23:59 UTC. (Since we have to close the system manually,
submissions will probably be accepted for a few hours after the
deadline, but we’re not making any promises.) Submit your paper via
the web at

Before submitting you must register with the website and receive a
password by email; please do this well ahead of your submission, since
email is sometimes unreliable. You will also need to fill out a web
form with the author details and type in (or paste) a plain-text
version of your abstract (200 words), in addition to uploading
your paper.

The actual paper should be an anonymous PDF file, 6 pages long
(including data, tables, figures, and references), A4 paper size,
11pt Times font, 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins, 2-column
format. Include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about
200 words).
You may find it convenient to use the style files provided by
COLING/ACL 2006.

Multiple submissions by the same author or group of authors are
allowed, but each person may only give one oral presentation at the
workshop.

We will have a separate submission of late-breaking system
demonstrations and ongoing project descriptions, to be presented in a
poster session during the workshop. Late-breaking submissions will be
two pages long; they will not be refereed, but evaluated for relevance
only by the program committee chairs. Submission of late-breaking
abstracts will be allowed only after review of the main session papers
has concluded. The deadline for late-breaking submissions is
15 April 2007.

Proceedings

Final, 8-page versions of the accepted papers, together with the
2-page accepted late breaking abstracts, will be distributed in a
proceedings volume at the workshop.

Important Dates

Submissions due:

18 February 2007 (Sunday)

Notification:

30 March 2007 (Friday)

Late-breaking submissions:

15 April 2007 (Sunday)

Notification:

20 April 2007 (Friday)

Final versions due:

30 April 2007 (Monday)

CIMeC inaugural workshop:

29 May 2007 (Tuesday)

DECALOG 2007 workshop:

30 May – 1 June 2007 (Wednesday–Friday)

Local information, registration etc.

We’re still working on this, and will update this section later.
In the meantime, here is some information about
Rovereto.